Woody Bradford

Advent invests in companies located across the globe. The firm targets companies operating in the fields of business & financial services, healthcare, industrial and technology services. It provides financing for leveraged buyout, recapitalizations, growth and public to private transactions. It also acquires majority and minority ownership.

Conning offers a range of actively managed multi-sector strategies. The firm strives to deliver investment results through strategic asset allocation, sector rotation and issue selection, while addressing their clients’ unique requirements. They utilize proprietary research and analysis which is critical to improving returns while carefully managing risk.

PIM is an active, long-term investment manager across the major asset classes. Their analysis of the financial markets is generally based on fundamental analysis and research, but also includes quantitative elements. PIM research is focused on developing both a top-down view of broader market performance and a bottom-up outlook for individual securities.

Quoniam is an active, quantitative manager which believes that a structured investment process can generate sustainable returns compared to a passive investment and that the manner in which information is processed is a crucial success factor. For this reason, they develop quantitative investment strategies that process fundamental information on companies and markets. The firm follows a bottom-up approach, to produce performance forecasts on significant indivdual equities which are based on financial statements, equity valuations, investor sentiment, and macroeconomic factors. The factor weightings are regularly re-calibrated, ensuring dynamic adjustment in response to new market developments. They then implement performance forecasts in a risk-controlled manner. Quoniam makes investment decisions based on fundamental know-how. They also use models and methodology to analyze information in an objective, controlled, and historical manner. As a result, they are able to construct broadly diversified portfolios comprising numerous small, actively-managed positions.

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Functions as a College/University

Operates as an investment management firm

Goodwin offers a range of actively managed multi-sector strategies. Their strategy employs active sector rotation, strong security selection and disciplined risk management, which provides the most effective means to achieve excess returns in the fixed income market. The firm seeks the best opportunities to maximize total return while avoiding interest-rate forecasting. They use a relative value approach to the fixed income market which stresses active sector rotation, and if allowed in client guidelines, could include below investment grade debt and emerging markets. Portfolio construction is a combination of top-down sector allocation and bottom-up issue selection, both of which are based on relative valuation.

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